The Rooster Crows: News & Blogs

With the Nov. 8 election approaching, the Knights of Columbus have released a novena addressed to Mary, the Immaculate Conception, who is the patroness of the United States. “Pope Francis has said in reference to the U.S. election that we should ‘study the proposals well, pray and choose with your conscience,’ and this novena is designed to help Catholic Americans do that.”

Is America becoming overwhelmingly less religious? This article from TheAtlantic digs into some of the statistics around this and has makes some good points that we, as Cursillistas, can learn from. Some examples are listed here but click on the link to see the full article. [Click on the header to see the blog entry]

Ben Daghir (Cursillo #230), from Elk County, was just accepted into the seminary. Ben wrote an open letter to Cursillistas sharing how Cursillo has touched his life and issuing a challenge to all Cursillistas to help guide our youth and fill the gap in their lives that our society and culture do not. [Click on the Title to read the entire letter]

If you could change the world right now, would you? Do you believe in the power of prayer? I’m going to make the assumption that if you are reading this, you do. Do you believe there would be power in all Cursillistas praying the same prayer at the same time every day? What if everyone in Erie County prayed at the same time? What about everyone in the entire Diocese? Now, imagine if you could get a million people to pray the same prayer, at the same time, twice a day. THAT would be kind of like a prayer revolution! I recently came upon this concept and wanted to share it with my fellow Cursillistas. [Click the Title for the Full Story]

It was remarkable, really. If you do not feel loved by God, or loved in life, or have trouble loving yourself, Cursillo swaddles you in love, attention, and caring. The idea is that God’s love comes to you through others, in this case, Cursillistas who are with you all weekend as well as those checking in from places far beyond. [Click the Title to see the full article]